"Democratic trap"?

"Republicans in the House and Senate should not approve the Democrat trap of the January 6 Commission,

"It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately." ~ The former guy~

What's that saying old black folks like to say? "I'm sick and tired of being tired?" That's kind of how I am feeling right now. 

Let's face it, folks, America is a hot mess. I really should clarify that statement: Half of America is a hot mess, and I think you all know the half I am talking about.

If you would have told me a few weeks ago that the GOP would block the January 6th investigative commission, I would have told you that you were crazy. Of course I would have been  the crazy one, because I should know not to put anything past the current crew of republicans in Washington. These are the same folks who refuse to strip Mart Gaetz of his committee seats until we see where this whole sex with minors thing leads us. Not to mention the fact that one of their more prominent members and biggest fundraisers is...wait for it..... Marjorie Stalker Greene. Yes, the QAnon diva turned congresswoman is a pretty big deal in the grand old party. 

But back to this commission. These are the same folks who had one investigative commission after another when they were trying to nail Hillary Clinton for Benghazi. Now they want us to believe that this type of commission would be too political. Let's not forget the fact that a republican was a co-sponsor of the bill to get the damn thing off the ground, and that an equal number of republicans and democrats were to be on the commission. What they really mean, of course, is that it will make them look bad, because it was their former guy who whipped those people into a frenzy and encouraged them to head to the capitol that day. The truth is, some of these same politicians could be implicated in one way or another with what happened. 

There is another thing happening here as well. The white washing of the event. (Pun intended) The gaslighting and revisionist history around this event has been astonishing. They have said things such as "those poor trump supporters were just tourists", to "they didn't even have weapons with them." A commission would debunk all of that nonsense, and maybe get us some real answers about what really happened that day, and not to mention who knew what and when.

Sadly, I think Tim Ryan speaks for all of us. 

“We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can’t get bipartisanship,.. ...What else has to happen in this country...this is a slap in the face to every rank-and-file cop in the United States.” The assault on the Capitol resulted in the deaths of five people, and 140 police officers were injured."

They don't care congressman Ryan. They will go to the lowest depths imaginable to protect the feelings of a certain guy. The one calling the commission a "Democratic trap".